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Lyz Lenz Belabored (Hardback). Title: Belabored. Author: Lyz Lenz. In the present she details, with her trademark blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, how sexist assumptions inform our expectations for pregnant people, whether we're policing them, asking them to make sacrifices with dubious or disproven benefits, or putting them up on a pedestal in an "Earth mother" role. Further DetailsTitle: Belabored Condition: New Subtitle: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women Author: Lyz Lenz Format: Hardback ISBN-10: 1541762835 EAN: 9781541762831 ISBN: 9781541762831 Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S. Genre: Medicine Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, Society & Culture Release Date: 09/10/2020 Description: The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, a rate that is increasing, even as infant mortality rates decrease. Meanwhile, the right-wing assault on reproductive rights and bodily autonomy has also escalated. We can already glimpse a reality where embryos and fetuses have more rights than the people gestating them, and even women who aren't pregnant are seen first and foremost as potential incubators.In Belabored , journalist Lyz Lenz lays bare the misogynistic logic of U.S. cultural narratives about pregnancy, tracing them back to our murky, potent cultural soup of myths, from the religious to the historical. In the present she details, with her trademark blend of wit, snark, and raw intimacy, how sexist assumptions inform our expectations for pregnant people, whether we're policing them, asking them to make sacrifices with dubious or disproven benefits, or putting them up on a pedestal in an "Earth mother" role. Throughout, she reflects on her own experiences of being seen as alternately a vessel or a goddess--but hardly ever as herself--while carrying each of her two children. Belabored is an urgent call for us to embrace new narratives around pregnancy and the choice whether or not to have children, emphasising wholeness and agency, and to reflect those values in our laws, medicine, and interactions with each other. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 216mm Item Length: 148mm Item Width: 28mm Item Weight: 380g Release Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
